e-Stewards Eases Standards to Encourage Reuse. Certain high-end electronics may now be exported to developing countries for refurbishment and the standard for when used batteries become waste is to be modified....(Recycling Portal) 

 e-Stewards' E-Waste Trading Platform would restrict purchases to E-Stewards companies...(Forbes)  

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China's E-Waste Imports Supplanted by Domestic Supply. Conditions have been improved by Central Government intervention, but residual problems persist...(Taipei Times)

Waste Management's Lackluster Earnings cause restructuring. 650 of 1900 employees-mostly in its Houston HQ -took early retirement. The Wheelabrator subsidiary was divested...(Marketwatch) 

Global End-of-Life Recovery Laws are likely to be Patterned on Germany's. The law to cover photovoltaics in 2015, will reinforcing manufacturer take-back requirements for all electronics..(Solar Industry) 

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Primer on Rare Earth Elements:  What are they? How used? Where from? How do we ensure supplies? Plus supply/demand, chemistry, geology and more...(US Geological Survey) 

Metallurgical Recovery of Metals from E-Waste: Compares pyrometallurgical, hydrometallurgical and biometallurgical processing...(Jirang Cui, et al)

Comparing Printed Circuit Boards from computers with boards from mobile phones shows copper concentration by weight is increasing in mobile devices and remaining constant in personal computers...(Luciana Harue Yamane et al)

Characterization and Segregation of Waste Stream for selective disassembly, and isolation of valuable and hazardous components through mechanical separation....(Jirang Cui and Eric Forssberg)